(19)
(11) EP 0 858 141 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
15.12.1999 Bulletin 1999/50

(43) Date of publication A2:
12.08.1998 Bulletin 1998/33

(21) Application number: 98200304.8

(22) Date of filing: 02.02.1998
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)6H02J 3/18
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE
Designated Extension States:
AL LT LV MK RO SI

(30) Priority: 06.02.1997 SE 9705219

(71) Applicant: ASEA BROWN BOVERI AB
721 83 Västeras (SE)

(72) Inventor:
  • Thorvaldsson, Björn
    730 40 Kolbäck (SE)

   


(54) A method and a device for control of a capacitor device for a shunt-connected compensator unit


(57) A device for control of a capacitor device for a shunt-connected static compensator unit (COM1, COM2, COM3) for compensation of reactive power in an electric power network (NW). The capacitor device comprises a capacitor and a semiconductor valve, connected in series with said capacitor, with a first semiconductor, corresponding to respectively a first and a second conduction direction for current through the capacitor. The device comprises members (VN, FSD, CU) which, in dependence on a voltage (Uab, Ubc, Uca) sensed at the compensator, alternately generate a firing order for the respective semiconductor. In addition thereto, the device comprises members which, for each of the first and second conduction directions, form a deblocking signal, indicating that the conduction direction associated with the respective firing order does not carry current, and which thus generate a firing order for the second of the first and second conduction directions with an optional delay (T1*f*360°) after the occurrence of said deblocking signal.







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